Interview with Diana E. Wheeler
The research of Diana Esther Wheeler from the University of Arizona entomology department focuses on the physiological basis of caste differentiation in social insects. She...
Monthly Archive: June 2018
Antennation and information
In their paper “No evidence for tactile communication of direction in foraging Lasius ants” published in Insectes Sociaux February 2018, Stefan Popp et al. test...
Doing an ant PostDoc: Antoine Felden
Antoine Felden is a 29-year old myrmecologist from France. He started his biology courses in Strasbourg (France) and started to get involved with ant...
How many ant species are there on Earth?
The myrmecological community has been interested for decades in all those questions associated with: How many extant ant species are there, really? We contacted authors...
Doing an ant PostDoc: Misato Okamoto Miyakawa
Misato Okamato Miyakawa is a 33-year old evolutionary biologist from Japan. She studied physics when she was an undergraduate student at Ritsumeikan University. After that,...
Responses of ant assemblages to long-term grassland management
Antonio Pérez-Sánchez is a 35-year-old researcher from Venezuela. Currently, he is a PhD student at the Thünen Institute of Biodiversity under the supervision of Jens...
Experiments on collective decision-making during food recruitment make no (ecological) sense
A View compiled by Tomer J. Czaczkes Collective decision making is an important topic, especially for social insect researchers. Broadly, it asks how groups...
Interview with Jacques H.C. Delabie
Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie is a researcher at the Cocoa Research Centre (CEPEC) and gives classes at the State University of Santa Cruz (UESC)....
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